The Kursk's Uneasy Legacy

The tragic loss of the Russian Navy's Kursk has raised the old issue of what to do about waste from nuclear accidents at sea. One geologist's radical theory that nuclear waste could be stored safely in the deep seabed may offer a solution for the Kursk and other downed submarines.

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Michael Schofield is a former journalist who covered the search for the downed nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) in 1963. He later managed Woods Hole Oceanographic's news and information office and retired from the State Department in 1996.

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